British classical music: English music, British composers, Irish composers; a list of websites
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British Academy of Composers and Songwriters
BASCA exists to support and protect the artistic, professional, commercial and copyright interests of songwriters, lyricists and composers of all genres of music and to celebrate and encourage excellence in British music writing.
The Land of the Lost Continent. British classical music. A blog.
Classical music of the United Kingdom, Wikipedia entry.
The British Library Sound Archive
Light music
British Light Music in Series and Sets
Naxos and Marco Polo recordings.
The Robert Farnon Society
Biographies of notable light music composers and arrangers.
Brian Reynolds’ Masters of Melody website.
Eric Coates
Wikipedia entry.
Ernest Tomlinson
Wikipedia entry.
Folk music
American Library of Congress. American Memory,
a gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States. The site includes a massive collection of traditional music recordings, song manuscripts and musical scores.
Bodleian Library Broadside Ballads
Folk Music Festivals in the UK
Vaughan Williams Memorial Library
The library and archive of the English Folk Dance and Song Society. It hosts a number of the library’s indexes to manuscript collections, together with the Roud Folk Song Index.
English folk and traditional music on the Internet
A guide to Internet resources on English folk music (traditional music, song and dance in England)
British Library Sound Archives
World and traditional music.
Country Dance and Song Society
Celebrating a Living Tradition of English and Anglo-American Folk Dance and Music since 1915.
Irish Traditional Music Archive
Contemporary British composers
BBC – Radio 3
Contemporary British Composers on Radio 3.
Early British popular music.
Wikipedia entry.
The Guardian guide to contemporary classical music.
Wikipedia entries on British composers.
Well-known British composers of the past and present
Ades, Thomas
Thomas Ades. Works by Thomas Ades. BMIC
“Don’t call me a messiah”, The Daily Telegraph
Ionarts in Santa Fe: The Tempest
Faber Music’s complete list of works by Thomas Adès.
Arnold, Sir Malcolm
The Sir Malcolm Arnold website.
The Mathew Arnold Wikipedia entry.
Bantock, Granville
Bax, Arnold
List of Sir Arnold Bax’s Works
Berkeley, Lennox
Lennox Berkeley. Wikipedia entry.
Lennox Berkeley
Brief Biography. Chester Novello
Lennox Berkeley
Biography, work list, and discussions of the music.
Lennox Berkeley and his Music (biography)
Biography of Sir Lennox Berkeley (1903-1989) by Tony Scotland.
Lennox Berkeley- Albums, Pictures
Noxos Music
Benjamin, George
George Benjamin, Wikipedia entry.
Written on The Skin Guardian review.
Opera News Magazine interview with George Benjamin.
Bennett, Richard Rodney
Richard Rodney Bennett, Wikipedia entry.
Birtwistle, Harrison
Harrison Birtwistle. Wikipedia entry.
Sir Harrison Birtwistle. Universal Edition
Bliss, Sir Arthur
Boyce, William
William Boyce. Wikipedia entry.
Brian, Harvergal
Britten, Benjamin
The Briiten-Pears Foundation website.
Bryars, George
Burgon, Jeffrey
Geoffrey Burgon, Wikipedia entry.
Butterworth, George
Davis, Peter Maxwell
Peter Maxwell Davies
Wikipedia entry.
Peter Maxwell Davies
Chestor Novello
Peter Maxwell Davies
Boosey and Hawkes
Delius, Frederic
Frederick Delius. Reference information, discography, sound files, photos and links.
Delius. A page by Tore Frantzvåg Steenslid
Elgar, Edward
Edward Elgar Society Homepage
Elgar foundation. Elgar’s life and works.
Edward Elgar, Wikipedia entry.
Free music scores by Elgar. IMSLP
Harty, Hamilton
Holst, Gustav
Gustav Holst Free scores n the International Music Score Library Project
Holst, Gustav. Gustav Holst
Biography, sound clips, resources, compositions.
GustavHolst.info. List of works, biography.
Lambert, Constant
Lloyd, George
George Lloyd at 100. Grammophone Magazine
Purcell, Henry
Henry Purcell
Wikipedia entry.
Works by or about Henry Purcell in libraries.
Free scores by Henry Purcell at The Werner Icking Music Archive (WIMA)
Free scores by Henry Purcell
International Music Score Library Project.
Marsh, John
Moeran, E. J.
Ernest John Moeran. Wikipedia entry.
Ernest J. Moeran. Chestor Novello
E J Moeran. MusicWeb International
Tallis, Thomas
Tavener, John
John Tavener’s life and works. Wikipedia
John Tavener at ChesterNovello
Sir John Tavener obituary. The Guardian
John Tavener: his final interview. The Telegraph
Tippett, Sir Michael
The Michael Tippett Musical Foundation
Michael Tippett: a visionary in the shadow of his rival. The Telegraph
Michael Tippett. Gramophone.co.uk
If Michael Tippett were alive, he would still be …The Guardian
Walton, William
William Walton, Wikipedia entry.
William Walton: Biography. Boosey & Hawkes
William Walton repertoire list.
William Walton. Concerts, Biography & News. BBC Music
Warlock, Peter
Peter Warlock
Wikipedia
The Peter Warlock Society website
Williams, Ralph Vaughan
Ralph Vaughan Williams.
BBC Four Audio Interviews. Ralph Vaughan Williams.
Ralph Vaughan Williams Society
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Wikipedia entry.